Sawing-machine frame



Feb; 24, 1931.

K. E. R. GSTERBERG SAWING MACHINE FRAME Filed June 3, 1930 Patented Feb. '24, 19311 unites stares rarinre sur ore-res j KARL ERIK RUDOLF STER-IBERG, or STOCKHOLM, swans-1v, ASSIGNOR 'ro J, a o. G.

BOLINDEBS EIEKANZSKA VEBKSTADS AKTIEBOLAG, :1 STOCKHOLM, SVTEDEN, A

JOINT-STOCK COMPANY SAWING-IVIACHINE FRAME Application filed June 3, 1930, Serial No. 459,093, and in Sweden November 9, 1929.

The present invention, which has for its object to obviate the said drawback, provides for an arrangement by means of which the lifting of the rollers may be effected with the aid of mechanical power so that both pressure rollers may be raised and lowered independently of each other.

The arrangement aimed at by the inven- 150 tion is principally characterized by the feature that the pressure rollers of the saw frame, which are adapted to be raised and lowered, are connected each per se with a power transmitting means provided at the saw frame, the connection being efiected by means of gearings which are reversible in such a manner that, when the one or the other of said gearings, or both of them at the same time, is/ are thrown into engagement, the one 0 or the other pressure roller, or both of them at the same time, will be raised or lowered.

The invention is preferably carried into efiect with the use of so-called disk gearings in which two plane friction disks are secured Cit on a power transmitting shaft mounted in the frame of the saw frame, whereas between said disks are arranged two other friction disks which may, each per se, be brought into cooperation with the one or the other of the first-mentioned friction disks, and which are in driving connection, through worm gearings or other suitable gearings, with toothed racks or the like adapted to be raised and lowered, said racks carrying the pressure rollers.

The accompanying drawing illustrates by way of example a saw frame arranged in accordance with the new construction. Fig. 1 shows the frame in a front view and Fig. 2

the same in a side elevation.

Mounted on one'sideofv the main frame 1 of the machine is a vertical countershaft 2 which is driven continuously during'the operation of the machine by a power shaft 20 through bevel gears 21, 22. Countershaft'2 has fixed thereto at its upper end two plane frictlon disks 3 and 4, in spaced relation, on diametrlcally opposite sides of whlch, and

between the two disks, are arranged friction disks 5 and 6 on worm shafts 7 having worm portions 23 which engage worm wheels 24. /Vorniwheels 2e are ilXGCl on shafts 12 andsurrounding the wheels and oscillable about the shafts 12 are housings 8 in which the worm shafts 7 are journaled.

Shafts 12 have fixed thereto pinions 9 engaging the teeth of vertical rack bars 10 whose lower hooked ends engage bails 15 secured to vertical slides 15 which support the pressure rollers 11.

A rod'13 is pivotally connected at its upper end to each of the casings 8 adjacent the wheels 5 and 6 respectively, each rod being pivoted at its lower end to an actuating. lever 14 within easy reach of the machine operator. By manipulation of levers 14, disks 5' and 6 may be engaged simultaneously or separately with either of disks 3 and i to impart drive i rack bars and thus appropriately displace 1 frames 15 and pressure rollers 11. It will be understood that engagement of the driven disks 5 and 6 with the drive disks 3 and lis poss1ble due to the oscillability of casings 8 about shafts 12.

gearing and the pinion 9, the toothed rack 10 being thus raised or lowered so as to raise or lower the corresponding rollerframe 15 and its corresponding pressure roller 11.

3 Obviously, both pressure rollers 11 may be raised or lowered simultaneously by actuating the tWo levers 14 at the same time.

What I claim is 2- 1. In a machine of the class described, an upright main frame, a horizontal pressure roller, a supporting frame forsaid roller adjustable vertically on the main frame, a power shaft on the main frame, a vertical countershaft driven by the power shaft,

spaced friction drive disks on said counter-i shaft adjacent the top of the main frame, a friction driven disk selectively cooperable With said drive disks for rotation thereby in 7 either direct-ion, a W0 111 shaft driven by said driven disk, a Worm Wheel engaging said Worm shaft, a shaft on which said worm Wheel is fixed, a pinion fixed on said Worm Wheel shaft, and a vertically extending rack bar having its upper portion engaged with said pinion and its lower end in connection with said bearing frame.

2. Structure according to claim 1 wherein the Worm Wheel is provided With a housing in Which the Worm shaft is our aled, the driven disk being fixed on the Worm shaft and the housing being oscillable about the Worm Wheel shaft to engage the driven disk with either of the drive disks.

3. In a machine of the class described, an upright main frame, a horizontal pressure roller, a supporting frame for said pressure roller adjustable vertically on the main frame, a vertical driven shaft on the main frame, spaced friction 'drive disks on said countershaft adjacent the top of the main frame, a friction driven disk selectively cooperable with said drive disks for rotation thereby in either direction, a Worm shaft driven by said driven disk,-a Worm Wheel engaging said Worm shaft, a shaft'on which said Worm wheel is fixed, a Worm housing oscillable about said Worm Wheel shaft and having bearings supporting said Worm shaft, means for oscillating the housing to engage the driven disk With the drive disks, and

means driven by the Worm Wheel shaft for adjusting said supporting frame.

KARL ERIK RUDOLF @STERBERG. 

